Netflix’s The Crown in regal blunder as it gets year wrong in Royal Variety Performance storyline
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thesun.co.ukTHE Crown has made a regal blunder by claiming the queen attended the Royal Variety Performance in the wrong year. The episode in question featured a blue poster for the performance at the Lyceum Theatre in London dated as 1984 – but the Queen didn’t go that year.
Instead the Queen Mother, Prince Charles and Dianna went in her place. But The Crown has used some artistic licence and showed the Queen, played by Olivia Coleman, meeting Joan Collins and Sarah Brightman, which did happen but in 1985.
The show’s creator Peter Morgan previously admitted that accuracy had to take a back seat for the sake of the plot. He said: “My view is that an audience is so sensitive and has such fine instincts that, if an audience rejects it, then it's probably.
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